Decompression Party

About 6 weeks after Burning Man each year a "Decompression" fair is held
on a closed San Francisco street. It's a reunion, and a chance for
newcomers to get a small taste of Burning Man with cell phones and without
the dust. (It does seem that a sizable fraction of the crowd has never
been.)

I set up 3 installations -- a wall with the latest giant panoramics,
the star map
and the Phone Booth, offering
free calls to anywhere in the world, this time over wireless to a more
mundane DSL connection. To make is surreal, we planted it in the middle
of the street. One person tried to tilt it up to see where the wires
were. Of course, in a world where all have their cell phones, it's not
quite so bizarre.

Here are shots of scenes and people at the Decompression. You can also
see the 2003 Decompression.